‘There is a clear risk that democracy will be broken’

Associations of judges and prosecutors have expressed “deep concern” about the agreement reached on Thursday by the PSOE and the Junts to appoint Pedro Sánchez as president of the Spanish government, as there is “a clear risk of violating democracy” ”.

The Francisco de Vitoria Judicial Association (AJFV) has put national commission member Sergio Oliva in charge of showing his “deepest concerns about some of the contents of the agreement.”

“This agreement establishes the establishment of investigative committees by the Congress of Deputies that will determine whether the judges and state security agencies and forces have engaged in manipulation against the pro-independence parties,” he noted.

Oliva has defended that “all judges in Spain have done in recent years is strictly comply with the law“That is the sin,” he complained in statements published by Europa Press.

For example, he has demanded that the separation of powers and judicial independencewarning that “we are at a very critical moment” because “there is a clear risk of breaking democracy.”

In the same vein, the spokesperson of the Professional and Independent Association of Prosecutors (APIF), Salvador Viada, has indicated that the agreement between the two groups is “very serious” and implicitly “a change of constitutional model‘Because the recognition of independence ambitions is pursued through negotiations, even accepting the role of mediator.

For Viada, the text is “a death blow to the Spanish constitutional system” and the amnesty law that will come into force is “a logical consequence of the concept of political regime change that PSOE and Junts want.”

PSOE response

The PSOE has assured that its agreement with the Junts is not intended to monitor the judges or review their sentences or their resolutions.

He indicates that when he refers to “the conclusions of the commissions of inquiry that will be established in the next legislature”, he refers to the commissions agreed with the Junts and with the ERC for the composition of the Congress table. “No other,” they emphasize.

These commissions are, according to socialist sources, the reactivation of the investigative commission established on March 28, 2023 for ‘Operation Catalonia’ (which refers to the illegal use of public media to harm political rivals with complaints proven to be false are) and a new commission for Pegasus.

“Therefore, Parliament will under no circumstances review any judicial judgment or resolution. Parliament will not supervise the judges. That is not what was agreed and could not have been agreed,” socialist sources indicate.